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Which Is the Best Platform for Starting a Blog?

If you are thinking of starting a blog or regularly publishing content online, you might have heard of Medium and WordPress. Both are incredibly popular tools, and both make it incredibly easy for people to publish content online. However, while the two serve a similar purpose, they are actually quite different. WordPress is a content management system, whereas Medium is a publishing and blogging platform. If you are confused between the two, here, we’ll compare the two options to work out which is best. How Does Medium Work? At its core, Medium is a… More Info

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Hackers infect random WordPress plugins to steal credit cards

Credit card swipers are being injected into random plugins of e-commerce WordPress sites, hiding from detection while stealing customer payment details. With the Christmas shopping season in full swing, card-stealing threat actors raise their efforts to infect online shops with stealthy skimmers, so administrators ought to remain vigilant. The latest trend is injecting card skimmers into WordPress plugin files, avoiding the closely-monitored ‘wp-admin’ and ‘wp-includes’ core directories where most injections are short-lived. Hiding in plain sight According to a new report by Sucuri,… More Info

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How to Customize Your WordPress Website With CSS: 3 Easy Methods

WordPress has evolved through the years, and today it’s a pretty flexible and easy to customize platform through its block editor, Gutenberg. Still, there will be times when you need a little more reach than the Gutenberg editor provides. This is where custom CSS comes in handy. CSS styling allows you to edit the colors, spacing, fonts, layouts, and basically every other visual element of your WordPress website, allowing you to make it look exactly how you want. In this article, we’ll walk you through the essentials of customizing your WordPress website with CSS. Why Customize… More Info

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How to Make a Web Directory in WordPress

Looking to build a web directory? Websites like Yelp, Airbnb, and many others are examples of popular and successful web directories. Essentially, web directories are websites that collect and share data about people, events, places, or organizations, often for a fee. A web directory can be complex and time-consuming to code from scratch, but with advancements in WordPress software capabilities, you can now build one with ease. Here are three ways to get the job done: Method 1: Building a Web Directory Using a Custom WordPress Directory Theme This is possibly the most… More Info

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How to install WordPress on Windows 11

by Claudiu Andone Windows & Software Expert Oldtimer in the tech and science press, Claudiu is focused on whatever comes new from Microsoft. His abrupt interest in computers started when he saw the first Home Computer as a kid. However, his… Read more Installing WordPress on Windows 11 can be a great idea if you want to manage all your resources locally. There is also a dedicated web app that allows you to access your website without using a browser. You can… More Info

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7 Must-Haves For Fast, Secure WordPress Shared Hosting

Ready to build your first website? Are you shopping for affordable WordPress web hosting? There are multiple types of web hosting solutions to choose from: shared hosting, dedicated hosting, cloud hosting, and VPS hosting, to name a few. If you own a small- or medium-sized business, shared hosting is likely going to be your best fit. What Should I Look For In a Shared Hosting Provider? Shared hosting is a great, budget-friendly solution for businesses that don’t need large, dedicated space for their website. Small- and medium-sized businesses can easily claim a place online without paying… More Info

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How to Set Up Single Sign-On Between FusionAuth and WordPress

User authentication is one of the most important parts of building any application, and almost every application features some sort of authentication. However, it quickly gets difficult to manage authentication when you have multiple related but independent applications to maintain. Let’s say you’re building a photo-sharing application that lets a user sign up with a username and password to share their pictures. Your team might later decide to create a forum using WordPress to help answer your users’ questions, but this new project isn’t tied to your original application. It… More Info

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Conservative central Illinois blogger’s website suspended

The website of a well-known conservative Bloomington-Normal area blogger has been suspended. Ellsworth area resident Diane Benjamin published her site BlnNews using the WordPress platform. It often contained content critical of central Illinois elected officials and educational, municipal, and state governmental bodies. As of Friday evening, readers who attempted to access Benjamin’s blog were routed instead to a notice of suspension. “blnnewsdotcom.wordpress.com is no longer available. This blog has been archived or suspended in accordance with… More Info

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AVCOG hosts free WordPress 101 webinar

AUBURN — The Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments is presenting the free webinar Website Development — WordPress 101 with Corey Zimmerman from The WanderWeb on Dec. 16 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m In this show-and-tell webinar, Zimmerman will introduce attendees to WordPress. Participants will learn the concepts of how to create a simple WordPress landing page with images and written content so they can be found on Google. Attendees will receive one hour of free one-on-one consultation with one of WanderWeb’s specialists. This offer is applicable to webinar participants in the… More Info

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How to Install WordPress on AlmaLinux 8 | Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial, we are providing the steps to install WordPress with Apache web server on ALamLinux or Rocky Linux 8 running VPS, Cloud Hosting, or local Server using the command line.  WordPress doesn’t need any introduction whosoever is in blogging or web development would already know about this opens source content management system. Millions of websites are currently running on it with the help of Apache-webserver. And if you have recently purchased some cloud or virtual private hosting server where you are running Alamlinux or Rocky Linux 8 and want to install your WordPress… More Info

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